Dive Watch Releases / Articles

2010-03-14

By TLex I won't bore everyone with all the text from the press release again, the SHCI was actually released last year, but production must have been held back. VOLNA have a number of Typhoon models, they won't be to everyone's taste and are quite pricey, but I admit to thinking they're kinda cool, and they seem to be of a very high quality. . .

I'm not sure if VOLNA as we know it will continue to exist, their website is down, I hope they will. VOLNA have recently partnered with Yvan Arpa; you might know him better for Romain Jerome’s love it or hate it Titanic DNA collection. Arpa was given the boot by RJ, but was very quickly brought on board by VOLNA co-founder Sebastien Bottinelli to create a new brand, VOLNATOMIC .

If the one rendering I have seen is anything to go by then VOLNATOMIC are going to be even less to everyone's taste than VOLNA are. Eyesore would be a gross understatement, they are best described by themselves as being disturbing, I agree . . .

Presented for the first time at Baselworld, the Typhoon Siberia is made entirely of Grade 5 titanium and is the result of new advances in this high-tech material – light, unalterable and anti-allergic. This dynamic chronograph from Volna is a perfect marriage between “Russian heritage and Swiss made”. Produced in two limited series of 125 pieces, the Typhoon Siberia comes in polished and satin-finished Grade 5 titanium or with highly-resistant black double carbon treatment.